Blog #3

Welcome back to my blog! On this episode, I am going to be talking about interests groups and their views on a specific issue. I am going to be analyzing both Democrat and Republican interest groups.

I chose America's Voice for the Democrat side and Federation for American Immigration Reform for the Republican side. These two groups are involved in immigration, which as of right now, the subject has become very controversial. Right now there are multiple issues tied to immigration but the most prominent issues are the separation of families at the border as children are being separated from their families when they cross the border, and they are being put in cages.

America's Voices

The mission of this group is to harness the powers of American voices and values to enact policy change that guarantees full labor, civil and political rights for immigrants and their families. An artifact that shows the stand of this group is shown in this post by group: https://bit.ly/2Jj3Gcu

"Republicans control the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Yet, Trump is blaming Democrats for the Republican failure to deal with this challenge in an intelligent and serious manner. In fact, over the past two years, Trump and his immigration advisor Stephen Miller made sure to blow up every serious effort to enact bipartisan immigration legislation. Instead, the centerpiece of Trump’s border policy has been to rip thousands of toddlers from their parents — a practice both immoral and ineffective. Now the Trump administration is gearing up to restart this dehumanizing and cruel policy."

This portion of the post shows the group's bias towards the Democrat side, which is not surprising. The post criticizes the decisions made by the Republican party by mentioning that they are the ones have control of the white house, thus making it seem like Democrat seats are not involved or do not agree with the current ideologies. The post also criticizes the effectiveness of the Republicans as they mention that even though they have been in control for over 2 years, they still fail to do the right solutions to issues. This group uses specific words to transmit the message to the public such as cruelty, immoral and ineffective. All of these words have a negative connotation, thus making the Republican party as an inadequate organization to be part of.

Federation for American Immigration Reform

The mission of this group is to seek to reduce overall immigration to a more normal level and allow America to manage growth, address environmental concerns, and maintain a high quality of life. FAIR puts the interests of American citizens and future generations ahead of big business and partisan demands. 

This video shows the groups bias towards immigration by sharing an anecdote of an immigrant woman whose son was killed by an undocumented immigrant. By sharing this video they are portraying the message that immigrants are only here to harm the country and other American citizens. However, the group does not really take into consideration that immigrants do have a positive impact too, one undocumented immigrant doing something improper, does not mean that all of the immigrants are seeking to harm the U.S. Showing only one side of the story makes this message biased to the Republican side as it is commonly known that Republicans have the ideology that immigrants are not good for the country. This group uses rhetoric devices such as pathos to present their message. By making a video of how an immigrant caused a tragedy and setting a sad mood, they expect the public to emotionally connect to their ideas and ultimately support them. 

The missions of these groups differ in a very evident way as the
The democratic group supports and believe in the idea that immigrants are good for the country, while the Republican group does not support immigrants as they cause harm and are criminals. The group that I resonate with is America's Voices because I agree with the idea that immigrants need to be supported and accepted by this country. I believe they deserve a chance to do something better. The reason why I do not agree with the other group is because I am an immigrant, and I know that I am not here nit harm the country but to contribute to it, and certainly there are more people like me who are doing nothing but good actions. There are actual statistics that show that more undocumented immigrants do not increase the rate of murders.